This is an analysis of The Thought by Humbert Wolfe.

I will not write a poem for you,
because a poem, even the loveliest,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXaX bXbX cdcd
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 101101011 01010100100 11011111 1011101011 1011101101 010111111 11110101 1100110100 110110010110 10101010 1111101010 10110101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Anaphora

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